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Will Open Source Support Providers Ride a Government Gravy Train?

We've recently written about potentially far-reaching moves by the U.S. government to switch significant parts of its internal software infrastructure to open source. First, the news came out that Whitehouse.gov is now based on the open source Drupal content management system (which OStatic runs on too), then the U.S. Department of Defense announced its plans to move to open source software components and platforms.

When the news broke about Whitehouse.gov and Drupal (and the Obama administration has indicated intent to run other government sites with Drupal), my first thought was that Acquia, which provides commercial support for Drupal, might see some valuable support contracts from the government. InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues takes the idea one step further, though, and I'm inclined to agree with him.



U.S. Defense Department Cozies Up to Open Source

Yesterday we covered the news of the U.S. government showing a little more love to open source by relaunching Whitehouse.gov as a Drupal site. The move came after recent clamoring for the Obama administration to more aggressively pursue open source initiatives. Now, as matt Asay notes, the U.S. Defense Department has issued new guidelines regarding open source adoption.


A New Appeal to Obama to Support FOSS

Andy Updegrove from ConsortiumInfo.org, who is also deeply involved with the Open Source for America initiative, has a manifesto post up that calls for President Obama to to come out in favor of open source. This isn't the first time that open letters to Obama on this topic have been penned, even though the Obama administration has stated its support for open source. Updegrove's post places urgency on even more administration support.


Connect: An Open Source Effort to Improve Healthcare Info Sharing

The Obama administration is committed to overhauling government spending on technology by adopting open source solutions, and healthcare professionals are increasingly heeding the call of open source. This week brings an important step in empowering healthcare IT organizations to tie into the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), a federal initiative to facilitate the electronic exchange of health information. The open source inititiative is called Connect. It consists of open source software and accompanying documentation, available here. As Matt Asay notes, the goal is to reduce the cost and complexity of tying into the U.S. national health information network, with three of the largest federal healthcare provider organizations, Defense and Veterans Affairs departments plus the Indian Health Service, each participating in Connect.


FOSS Execs Send Open Letter to Obama

Executives representing several open source software companies collaborated on an open letter to President Barack Obama in the hopes of moving open source solutions to the top of the list of ways to implement parts of his national economic stimulus plan. The letter asks Obama to make FOSS a key component of all new technology initiatives implemented during his administration.

Of course, that's a tall order. Under Obama's new plan, everything from digitized medical records and nationwide high-speed Internet access to improved classroom technology stands to benefit in some way. Stuart Cohen, CEO of Collaborative Software Initiative, is confident that this letter is the first step toward helping determine which initiatives should get attention first.



Why McNealy is the Right Open Source Champion, and Why it Matters

Ever since the news broke that President Obama has requested a paper from Sun Chairman Scott McNealy on how the government could best use open source technologies, opinions have been flying around about whether McNealy is the right guy, whether open source is the right prescription, and more. Having followed McNealy for years, I think he will make better arguments than some people in the open source community think he will. It's also apparent that some people misunderstand the incredible opportunity the government has to reboot its infrastructure with open source technology.


Healthcare Conference to Focus on Open Source Solutions

DOHCS

Panels, presentations, and Birds of a Feather meetings are certainly the highlight of next month's Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), but that's not the only thing happening during the event. The Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Solutions (DOHCS) conference will be co-located with SCALE and both will get underway on Friday, February 20, 2009.



A Republican Reference to Obama as Open Source President

If you've been around open source very long, you're probably familiar with Eric Raymond's famous tome The Cathedral and the Bazaar. It discusses, in Raymond's own words, the 'cathedral' model of most of the commercial world, versus the 'bazaar' model of the Linux world. In it, Raymond also argues that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. ? If you saw the election night coverage on CNN, did you happen to catch the reference to this piece of writing and the open source movement? Here's what was said.